Attorney-client privilege: loss of values or evolution of protective mechanisms?

The purpose of the work is to analyze and reveal the modern problems of protecting attorney-client privilege. The method of system analysis, the formal legal method, the method of studying documents and other methods of cognition were used. The article analyzes the legislative provisions of the Federal Law «On Advocacy and Advocacy in the Russian Federation» and the novelties of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, as well as resolutions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The insufficiency of effective mechanisms for the protection of attorney-client privilege, which are provided for by these legal acts, has been established. The significance of the work lies in the fact that it contains proposals for improving the mechanisms for protecting attorney-client privilege.